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Britain Alone, the Path from Suez to Brexit

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Roundtable
Members of the Council are invited to interact with award-winning journalist Philip Stephens on his new book, Britain Alone, analyzing a nation’s struggle to reconcile its waning power with past glory.
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Oct
5
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Speakers
Philip Stephens
Ivo H. Daalder
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About This Event

Chicago Council members are invited to join Philip Stephens of the Financial Times to explore Britain’s decades-long adjustment to the loss of its empire and global power. Outside of the European Union and faced with an uncertain transatlantic relationship, Britain today appears alone, even adrift, as it attempts to redefine its role and purpose in the world. Drawing on decades of research and interviews with senior politicians and diplomats in Britain, the US, and across the capitals of Europe, Stephens argues in his new book, Britain Alone, that this moment has been six decades in the making.

Copies of Philip Stephens’ new book, Britain Alone: The Path from Suez to Brexit, are available to purchase through our local book partner, The Book Cellar.

About the Speakers
Contributing Editor, Financial Times
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Philip Stephens joined the Financial Times in 1983 as the economics, political, and UK edition editor, and currently serves as a contributing editor. He won the David Watt Prize for Outstanding Political Journalism, Political Journalist of the Year by the UK Political Studies Association, and Political Journalist of the Year in the British Press Awards.
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CEO, Chicago Council on Global Affairs
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Ivo H. Daalder served as the US ambassador to NATO from 2009 to 2013. He joined the Council as president in 2013 and took on the new role of CEO in 2023. Previously, he was a senior fellow in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution and served as director for European affairs on President Bill Clinton’s National Security Council. He is the author or editor of 10 books.
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